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                        1:32 Spitfire kit options

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                        Monogram Madness
                        • Member since
                          December 2021
                        • From: Northern Michigan
                        1:32 Spitfire kit options
                        Posted by Monogram Madness on Saturday, January 22, 2022 10:24 PM

                        Hey Guys,

                         

                        My brother wants me to build him a 32nd scale spit to sit along side of a 32 scal p-51 hasegawa he commisoned some years back.  Having no experience in 32nd scale is there any consenses as to what the best option is?  He is not concerned over any particular variant...i would prefer an earlier mkI or 2 but if there is really good later one i woulnt say no. 

                         

                        As always...thanks for the advice. 

                        Perfection is having fun and relaxing...not building the perfect model.  

                         

                        On the bench:  Revell 1:48 Spitfire MKII and Monogram 1:48 P-40B

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                        jeaton01
                        • Member since
                          December 2002
                        • From: Northern California
                        Posted by jeaton01 on Saturday, January 22, 2022 11:43 PM

                        Tamiya has done the XIc, the VIII  and the XVIe and they are great kits.  Revell has done the Mk I and II, research the kit carefully as Revell has made a number of early Spitfires and some are from very old molds.  Hasegawa has done a lot of 1/32 Spitfires but none are recent molds, though there are nice kits.

                        John

                        To see build logs for my models:  http://goldeneramodel.com/mymodels/mymodels.html

                         

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                        keavdog
                        • Member since
                          April 2003
                        • From: USA
                        Posted by keavdog on Saturday, January 22, 2022 11:52 PM

                        Here's all 75 options according to Scalemates

                        https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?q=1%2F32+spitfire&fkSCALENORMALISED[]=%221:00032%22&fkSECTION[]=Kits&fkTYPENAME[]=%22Full%20kits%22

                         

                        Thanks,

                        John

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                        Wilbur Wright
                        • Member since
                          February 2006
                        • From: Boston
                        Posted by Wilbur Wright on Sunday, January 23, 2022 12:17 AM

                        I built the newest Revell version, added a pilot and it looks great. It's about $100 dollars less expensive than the Tamiya kits.  If your just looking for an exterior version then the Revell kit is good value.

                        The Tamiya kits are spectacular and expensive.

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                        Eaglecash867
                        • Member since
                          April 2020
                        Posted by Eaglecash867 on Sunday, January 23, 2022 6:20 AM

                        I have the Tamiya Mk XVIe that I have been working on here and there and its amazing.

                        "You can have my illegal fireworks when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers...which are...over there somewhere."

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                        murph
                        • Member since
                          January 2003
                        • From: West of the rock and east of the hard place!
                        Posted by murph on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 9:42 AM

                        Wilbur Wright

                        I built the newest Revell version, added a pilot and it looks great. It's about $100 dollars less expensive than the Tamiya kits.  If your just looking for an exterior version then the Revell kit is good value.

                        The Tamiya kits are spectacular and expensive.

                         

                        Seconded!  I've built two of the new Revell Germany Mk IXc's.  They're fantastic.  I bought them second hand and the friend I got them from included a couple of PE sets for seat belts and the Tamiya kit decal for J.E. 'Johnny' Johnson's personal mount.  They went together really nicely and the kit decals from Revell (DN*T) were amazing.

                         

                         

                        Retired and living the dream!

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                        GMorrison
                        • Member since
                          September 2012
                        Posted by GMorrison on Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:06 PM

                        keavdog

                        Here's all 75 options according to Scalemates

                        https://www.scalemates.com/search.php?q=1%2F32+spitfire&fkSCALENORMALISED[]=%221:00032%22&fkSECTION[]=Kits&fkTYPENAME[]=%22Full%20kits%22

                         

                         

                        There's one in every crowd.Stick out tongue

                         

                        But yeah, I loved the old Revell kit with the working gear. Their newer one sounds swell.

                         

                        The Tamiya ones, John and I had a chance to work on one together. They are nice but complicated and costy.

                         

                        Bill

                         Modeling is an excuse to buy books.

                         

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                        Hoss WA
                        • Member since
                          July 2019
                        Posted by Hoss WA on Saturday, January 29, 2022 2:47 PM

                        I've built the Tamiya 1/32 Spitfire IXc and really enjoyed it. 

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